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edit approved Feb 21, 2013 at 0:55
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edit approved Feb 21, 2013 at 0:55
user193100

Use ls -lls -l to view the permissions on the folder. Does the user you authenticate as have write access to that directory? If not, you need to use chmodchmod to ensure that it does, or it will never work.

Often, FTP accounts have limited access to areas close to // In fact, some systems are set up so they can ONLY write to /home/ftpUserName/home/ftpUserName

Use ls -l to view the permissions on the folder. Does the user you authenticate as have write access to that directory? If not, you need to use chmod to ensure that it does, or it will never work.

Often, FTP accounts have limited access to areas close to / In fact, some systems are set up so they can ONLY write to /home/ftpUserName

Use ls -l to view the permissions on the folder. Does the user you authenticate as have write access to that directory? If not, you need to use chmod to ensure that it does, or it will never work.

Often, FTP accounts have limited access to areas close to / In fact, some systems are set up so they can ONLY write to /home/ftpUserName

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Use ls -l to view the permissions on the folder. Does the user you authenticate as have write access to that directory? If not, you need to use chmod to ensure that it does, or it will never work.

Often, FTP accounts have limited access to areas close to / In fact, some systems are set up so they can ONLY write to /home/ftpUserName